Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hog Kong, Feb 26, 2011

LOT 93

Audemars Piguet Skeletonized Royal Oak ? Tantalum and pink gold Perpetual Calendar Audemars Piguet, Genève, "Royal Oak - Quantième Perpétuel Automatique" No. 003, case No. D 80634. Made in a limited edition circa 1996. Very fine and rare, octagonal, astronomic, skeletonized, self-winding, water-resistant, tantalum and 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon and an tantalum and 18K pink gold Audemars Piguet link bracelet with a stainless steel deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal platinum bezel set with 8 hexagonal nuts embanked in 8 screws on the transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent, subsidiary white ring dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months and the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases at 6. Black steel baton hands. M. Cal. 2120/ 4, gilt brass, hand-engraved and skeletonized, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, hand-engraved and skeletonized rotor with 21K gold segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 9 mm. Approx. overall length 184 mm.